ii2 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS, 



The female is lefs than the male, and has no horns* 

 They are in feafon in the autumn ; and bring forth in 

 April, fometimes one, but generally two young ones at a 

 time, which arrive at their full growth in fix years. 



The American ELK, 



of which we here give a faithful portrait from a living 

 one lately brought from the interior parts of America, 

 feems to be a different animal from that generally de- 

 fcribed under the name of the Elk or Moofe-deer y to 

 which it has very little refemblance. It feems, indeed, 

 to belong to a diftindt fpecies ; and is probably the Elk 

 or Qrignal of Canada and the northern parts of America. 



